Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
I guess I’m a little slow today – well, I’m a little slow every day. Almost immediately after I posted the news about Sony’s new Internet-ready televisions, I caught this press release from Vizio:
VIZIO, America’s TV and Consumer Electronics Company, announced today the unveiling of its "Connected HDTV" Platform, which enhances the HDTV viewing experience [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
Earlier this week I had posted about LG offering Netflix streaming in its new HDTVs and other signs that the Internet is gradually becoming the future of television. Sony, unsurprisingly, won’t be outdone by LG. They’re also offering new Internet capable Bravia HDTVs, unveiled at CES 2009 in Las Vegas today.
According to the official [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
As was expected by most, Microsoft announced the availability of the public beta of Windows 7 at CES 2009 in Las Vegas today. If you’re a TechNet, TechBeta or MSDN customer, you can download the Windows 7 beta today. The rest of us can get our copy of the Windows 7 beta for free [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
It’s only been available since Google announced it on Monday, but already Picasa 3 for Mac needs an update. Here’s a screencap from my Mac:
Included in the 3.0.1 release: a fix for a crash when right-clicking on a photo, and improved handling of network failures during upload.
This might confirm a suggestion a friend of [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
I caught an interesting article by Larry Dignan over at ZDnet that talks about what we’ll likely see as upcoming FUD around SaaS vendors and viability in a down economy, expanding on an earlier post from Vinnie Mirchandani about methods that SaaS providers should use to calm customer’s possible fears of a company collapse. [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
I’ve often overheard people saying the reason they like Macs so much more than PCs is because they are "less vulnerable to viruses." But that’s simply not true, as Graham Cluley of Sophos correctly points out in his blog: Mac users are just as human as Windows users, and they too can be tricked [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
Sun Microsystems announced today that they acquired the cloud computing firm Q-Layer.
According to the official press release:
The Q-layer technology simplifies cloud management and allows users to quickly provision and deploy applications, a key component in Sun’s strategy to enable building public and private clouds. As businesses continue to rely more on technology to drive [...]
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